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	How Cisco's Piston acquisition will improve Intercloud While Intercloud is a great vision of the future, the path to it may not be obvious to most. To help customers make this transition, Cisco this morning announced its intention to acquire privately held Piston Cloud Computing. The company is relatively young, founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco. Read More : CDW Say Good-bye to Software Sprawl Gone are the days when you can handle software management on a spreadsheet. Hiring third party experts can save both time and money. Learn how CDW can help you put a software management strategy in place so you prepared for vendor audits View Now In this Issue HP, Arista team to take on Cisco, IBM, EMC in converged infrastructure Cisco's new leadership team is... ? Avaya acquires Esna, Mitel buys TigerTMS Faster Wi-Fi is coming soon to a device near you OpenStack acquisitions galore - IBM buys Blue Box; Cisco snaps up Piston Qualcomm turns to China's Allwinner to grow in low-cost tablet market Like routers, most USB modems also vulnerable to drive-by hacking HP buying SDN company for NFV Research community looks to SDN to help distribute data from the Large Hadron Collider WHITE PAPER: GT Nexus Shoe Supply Chain has Sole Version of Truth A cloud-based platform and "network of networks" connects Wolverine to its suppliers, customers and partners. This cloud hub has been the foundation of Wolverine's growth. View Now>> HP, Arista team to take on Cisco, IBM, EMC in converged infrastructure HP has entered into an arrangement with Arista Networks to market Arista's data center switches along with HP converged IT infrastructure products. Read More Cisco's new leadership team is... ? So now that CTO/strategy chief Padma Warrior will reportedly leave Cisco along with Presidents Lloyd and Moore at the end of the company's fiscal year, who will be left to man Chuck Robbins' new leadership team? Read More Avaya acquires Esna, Mitel buys TigerTMS Avaya has acquired Esna Technologies in a move intended to facilitate easier user access to cloud-based, multi-vendor communications capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. 3 Tough Business Challenges a Private Cloud Can Handle More organizations are realizing that private cloud gives IT the right foundation to tackle three of their toughest business challenges. With the ability to leverage investments you've already made, a private cloud solution can be adopted incrementally and deliver a big payoff in the long run. Learn More Faster Wi-Fi is coming soon to a device near you Wi-Fi in your home or office could get a big speed boost by the end of this year with Qualcomm's newest chip, which reaches new highs in data transfer speeds. Read More OpenStack acquisitions galore - IBM buys Blue Box; Cisco snaps up Piston The OpenStack market is consolidating – quickly.Today two startups in the open source cloud IaaS market were purchased: Cisco bought Piston Cloud Computing Co. and IBM purchased Blue Box. Terms of neither deal were disclosed. Read More Qualcomm turns to China's Allwinner to grow in low-cost tablet market Qualcomm hopes to put its chips in more low-cost Android tablets through a partnership with Chinese chip maker Allwinner. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Mobile Security: Confidence Ebbs as BYOD Booms Download this two-page paper detailing the IDG Research results and for expert advice on securing your organization's data in an increasingly mobile world. View more Like routers, most USB modems also vulnerable to drive-by hacking The majority of 3G and 4G USB modems offered by mobile operators to their customers have vulnerabilities in their Web-based management interfaces that could be exploited remotely when users visit compromised websites. Read More HP buying SDN company for NFV HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers. Read More Research community looks to SDN to help distribute data from the Large Hadron Collider When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts back up in June, the data collected and distributed worldwide for research will surpass the 200 petabytes exchanged among LHC sites the last time the collider was operational. Read More
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